DALLAS, Texas—Regional service provider MetroPCS Communications Inc. announced that it has started offering a roaming service to its customers that allows them to use their MetroPCS phones outside of their home service areas.
MetroPCS’ TravelTalk service provides roaming rates between 49 cents and 79 cents per minute for out-of-network roaming, depending on the calling area. According to MetroPCS, customers will be alerted on both inbound and outbound calls that they are using the roaming function and how much it will cost them.
MetroPCS agreed in March of last year to sell 10 megahertz of spectrum from its 30-megahertz block in San Francisco to Verizon Wireless. As part of that deal, the two carriers signed a 10-year roaming agreement. Leap Wireless International Inc. made a similar deal with Verizon Wireless around the same time, setting up a roaming agreement as part of a transaction that included the sale of 23 spectrum licenses and some of Leap’s network assets in Michigan.
MetroPCS provides flat-rate, no-contract wireless service to more than 2 million customers in Atlanta; Dallas; San Francisco and Sacramento, Calif.; and in Tampa and Miami, Fla. Earlier this week, the company announced the beginning of service in Detroit.
